Geoff Cohen

It was a delight to present on Belonging to Soetie Generale, a European leader in financial services for over 150 year

We're hiring a research associate for a project on the psychology & neuroscience of open-mindedness in politics. Ideal for someone research-oriented with skills in Python/MATLAB. Motivated, curious minds encouraged to apply! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/interdisc…

The partisan brain effect is extremely robust! The “concordance-over-truth” bias persisted across education levels, analytic reasoning ability, and partisan groups, with a stronger effect among Trump supporters. Extreme Trump attitudes are the strongest predictor:

Delighted to talk about belonging @Northeastern

NEW EPISODE OUT! @anjie_cao chats with @michaelschwalbe and @GeoffCohen on their most recent work on our biases in consuming political news! buzzsprout.com/1801436/episod…

The real divide may be “between those who believe they know the truth and those who remain open to the possibility that th ey might be mistaken.”

@michaelschwalbe and I wrote a timely op-ed about our appetite for politically convenient lies and our aversion to inconvenient truths. The issue isn’t just the lies; it’s our willingness to believe them. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

In research led by @michaelschwalbe of our lab, partisan bias trumped truth in people’s belief and sharing of real + fake news— an effect that held across ideology, education level, and cognitive ability. Critical thinking begins with being critical of our own minds.

@hakeemjefferson I’ll need something stronger.

I’m learning a lot from Dr. Bettina Love’s book, Punished for Dreaming. Love’s book shows how many school reforms have undermined the opportunity, potential, and belonging of millions of Black children. bettinalove.com/books/

Focusing on effect size may offer a way to pursue this important research while maintaining rigor.

The N-heuristic may incentivize large, fast, non-behavioral online studies, and deter research on underrepresented populations, immersive in-person studies, group dynamics, and long-term change.

A new meta-analysis led by Xingyu Li finds that effect size, not sample size (N), predicts the replicability in psychological science. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #Psychology #Research

For many this election season is already filled with a combination of dread and dismay, but the second season of Breaking Bread may calm some nerves in an anxiety ridden environment by mixing food and politics deadline.com/2024/07/breaki…

Grateful to Greater Good Science Center for their good work and this interview about the science of belonging. greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/h… @GreaterGoodSC

Using Twitter may satisfy the need to belong as junk food satisfies hunger, leaving you feeling worse and disgusted.

#NewVoices23 Spotlight ⭐️ Meet Rainier Harris, a writer & audio-maker from NYC! He has work published in The New York Times, PBS NewsHour, Business Insider, and more. He has reported for NPR's WNYC and their national afternoon show, Here & Now. airmedia.org/community/spot…

Group learning got you puzzled? Try jigsaw! 🧩 Social psychologist @GeoffCohen explains the benefits:

a refreshing and inspirational approach to campus disagreement. “Disagreement does not mean erasure of the other side.” youtu.be/QcBCmpqn708?fe…